Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...content with having written the excellent book, lyrics and music, Noel Coward, the costar, sings, dances and otherwise performs. This is unfortunate. The adage "supreme in one, indifferent in all," very nearly applies. Mr. Coward is a clever satirist and was quite evidently born with a silver tune in his mouth, but he is still caught in The Vortex and overdoes his stuff as a consequence. His frenzied, nail-gnawing and agonized eye-rolling largely detract from the effectiveness of "Dance, Little Lady," while his indifferent voice and dancing similarly blur a number of other scenes...
Student Pitt measured the conductivity of various samples of grain and lumber. These he then dried in an oven, collecting the vapor in an absorbent material which he weighed before and after the baking. This is the way dealers grade their goods. Thus the researcher obtained figures on moisture content and electrical conductivity. These he correlated into a chart. So much electrical resistance meant so much water...
...favor of the University players was largely the result of excellent running, passing, and kicking on the part of E. T. Putnam '30. He scored two touchdowns himself, heaved a pass to S. C. Burns '30 for a third and kicked all three extra points. But not content with doing most of his own team's scoring, Putnam also was responsible for the lone scrub touchdown when he muffed a punt near his own goal line. The ball rolled across where a scrub lineman fell...
...Dartmouth football teams have always relied on outscoring their opponents, working on a strong offensive game and being content with a moderately close defense...
Universal are the laws of fashion. Truly fashionable urbanites will not be content to keep hats, gowns,, suits in the latest mode. As distinct and almost as mercurial are style changes in shoes, gloves, jewelry, corsets, furs, silverware, automobiles, china, glass, trunks, musical instruments, furniture, toilet goods, perfumes...